"Alright, go rejoin the team first. I'll wait here for now and head back later, after you. That way, we'll stagger our return times, and no one will suspect the relationship between us." After saying that, Chen Mo headed toward the hills. He wanted to see whether the Golden-edged Snow Lotuses at Hilly Nursery had been damaged by Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing.
After those two old men went up there and got attacked by the Big White Dough Ball, some Golden-edged Snow Lotuses might have been caught up in it and frozen. Losing even one would be painful to him. Chen Mo had already regarded the Golden-edged Snow Lotuses at Hilly Nursery as his possessions, so damaging even a single plant meant a loss to his property.
As for staggering their return times, that was because if he still wanted to remain Old Sixth, he needed to keep hiding his strength and could not let Qian Ying and the others turn their attention toward him. Besides, with an old man like this out in the open, he would be able to handle things more calmly in the future. At the very least, he had a subordinate he could order around.
Otherwise, he was always alone, which made his side seem rather thin. His girlfriend needed protecting; he could not possibly assign her tasks. So whenever there was dirty, exhausting work that he did not want to do himself, he could hand it over to Zhou Zixing. Wasn't that perfect?
Upon hearing this, Zhou Zixing immediately nodded in agreement. Watching Chen Mo's figure vanish in a flash, he finally let out a breath, which turned into icy granules and fell in the wind and snow.
The temperature here was simply too low. The air that left his mouth immediately turned